Recommendations from our site
“Spirit Level is an incredible book. It provides the evidence that inequality is bad for us all including the best-off. “ Read more...
Danny Dorling, Social Scientist
“This is a big ideas book, probably one of the biggest ideas for the 21st century.” Read more...
Jo Boyden, Development & Aid Workers (see also Economists)
“What I liked especially about The Spirit Level is the way it builds a case that inequality is phenomenally dysfunctional. Different states in the US, with different levels of equality, have different levels of teenage pregnancy or homicide. It all comes back to inequality, and the book shows that high levels of inequality are completely dysfunctional.” Read more...
The best books on Fairness and Inequality
Will Hutton, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis -
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
by Anna Schwartz & Milton Friedman -
The Passions and the Interests
by Albert Hirschman -
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by David S Landes -
This Time Is Different
by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff -
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L Heilbroner
